Yliaster
@Yliaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on There's always money in the banana stand 1 week ago:
Voting doesn’t make a difference, the system needs to be overthrown.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
He’s a molester, what makes you think this would be an issue for him?
- Comment on A communist and an anarchist walk into a bar.. 2 weeks ago:
I was all for the pro-communist bias, but I do agree it’s an echo chamber that shuts down dissenting opinions. I was banned from a community for criticising China with depth, sadly many communists are wholly incapable of adequately addressing the real failures of China without passing it off as no big deal in an apologetic 1-2 liner at best (before proceeding to write paragraphs about how it’s the US’ fault and how other progressive countries “will be considered reactionary in the future”, or some other dumb shit).
The donations thing seems dumb though. You want to support the dev but not the instance?..weird.
- Comment on A communist and an anarchist walk into a bar.. 2 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with .ml?
- Comment on Chinese parents love to dismiss mental illness, but simultaneously love to threaten to "send their 'misbehaving' kid to a mental hospital". 2 weeks ago:
Seconding this. How dare you criticise china! It’s a perfect haven, you racist!
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t rhetorical, was intended to ask for your reasoning in more specific terms.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 2 weeks ago:
Allow me to rephrase.
Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference? After everything?
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 2 weeks ago:
Do politicians still have your faith?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Let’s look at one study and ignore the consensus of studies, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Smh.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t hurt the sales of the games, that’s an unscientific assertion you are asserting that directly contradicts research.
If you want to play it for free, nobody’s stopping you from pirating it too. It seems like resentment here rather than logical rigour in your argument. It’s not a slap in the face for gamers who want to support the developers. If you don’t, there’s no reason why you should be obligated to purchase the game.
Games are made and developed for-profit, they only continue production if they are profitable. They’ve remained profitable despite piracy forever.
This has nothing to do with the argument that all games should be free or that developers don’t need paychecks. It’s an entirely different set of claims which nobody is making here.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Logic is objective, so saying it’s logical to you is illogical.
A sense of humour is irrelevant to a discussion from a logical standpoint. Furthermore, we literally have data and studies that show that piracy doesn’t hurt the sales of games— when provided with this evidence in the comments, you just “laughed” at it.
You ask for reasoning/evidence, and when provided, just laugh at it. Laughter doesn’t dismiss evidence.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sure, just don’t pretend you’re engaging in logical discussion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Except when people provide you with evidence and reasoning you just go “lmao” and leave it at that too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
what if im gay?
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
That’s a fallacious argument. It’s like saying using a laptop made in 2026 is the exact same as using a laptop made in 2010 for privacy standards. News flash, it ain’t.
The killswitches in question wouldn’t apply to all new vehicles, or well, they would just be EVs, because they’re planning to ban regular vehicles.
- Comment on Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman 3 weeks ago:
Not all GPT users are American/residing in America
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
Them being electric lets companies monitor your vehicles the same way they do monitor your online presence.
You can look up the killswitch thing, it’s planned in Europe iirc.
Any time someone says these “technological advancements” are anything but innocuous, they get rammed as “fear-mongering”.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
Gonna get blasted for this, given the overall sentiment here in the comments towards EVs, but EVs are going to be used to monitor people everywhere they go and have killswitches, and other shit I’d not wanna deal with.
- Comment on Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
Microslop.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 4 weeks ago:
Why is curbing use unideal?
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 4 weeks ago:
makes sense.
Do you extend this reasoning to corrupt institutions? Eg: people saying, “fuck ice”.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 4 weeks ago:
How do you respond to verbal abuse without assuming bad faith?
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 4 weeks ago:
Further, self-control and attention span are not measures of intelligence.
You can be restrained and/or have a long attention span and still not be intelligent.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 4 weeks ago:
someone says “we should torture indigenous people” how can one glean that they don’t truly believe that?
It’s generally safe to assume they mean it, unless proven otherwise. People make hateful and racist remarks all the time, sadly, and it’s almost invariably a consistent pattern of behaviour that goes beyond plausible deniability. The line of reasoning you’ve provided me reads as strangely apologetic and bordering solipsistic.
I would assume it’s satire
Even if the hateful remarks are understood to be ‘‘a joke’’, I don’t think that’s any less damning. These are not the type of things to joke about, and most reasonable and/or decent people realize that.
It’s been my experience they eventually do. If someone is telling me I look nice and I take it as a genuine compliment, but they’re acting in bad faith, that’s going to drive them up the fucking wall that I’m so dumb that I don’t assume bad faith like they do.
Can you give me an example of something like that playing out on a serious real-life topic such as politics/race/genocide etc?
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 4 weeks ago:
This is still a fallacious argument because it’s clearly exaggerated/fictitious and nobody argues like this. If it was instead:
A: We should torture indigenous people by killing their offspring in front of them. B: You are acting in bad faith
Is totally acceptable - anyone arguing something like point A is most certainly not engaging in a ‘‘good faith’’ discussion, it’s plain common sense that they aren’t.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 4 weeks ago:
People in asia seem to have an infatuation with Russia even before the palestine issue became prominent. It’s sickening.
The only good thing about it I see is that it’s a necessary counter-balance against the US and its imperialism, perhaps.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah hadn’t realized the spanish/portuguese thing, assumed indigenous folk spoke it but I realize it’s usually some different native thing.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad it’s better over there, because in my [limited] friend group and family, nobody is pro-ukraine.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 4 weeks ago:
Ah so the people there are still ethnically brazillian/argentinian right? i.e. the people are indigenous themselves, just not the rulers? or are the majority of people of european descent too?